Ian to Dan:
All I would question is why a negative reaction to "veiled religious
fundamentlism" - dogmatic fundamentalism bad sure, but what about "faith
in quality" as the basis of a living metaphysics.
Andre:
Because 'faith in quality' suggests a belief, a trust in whatever one
means by quality. In this sense the MoQ is anti-theistic BECAUSE
'Everybody knows what quality is. Some people know that they know it,
and other people, particularly Freshman rhetoric students, don't know
they know that they know it'. (Anthony's PhD, p 45).
Every 6-year old knows what quality is Ian. You don't need any faith
whatsoever and, given Pirsig's MoQ arguing that 'we are the patterns'
your suggestion 'faith in quality' would be as much as saying 'faith in
myself'. The MoQ is not just a 'synthesis'. It is the COLLAPSE of
dualism (through an expansion of rationality).
In other words, with your suggestion you are setting up a dichotomy, a
division, a duality which the MoQ has destroyed (and which anything with
any religious flavor seeks to maintain).
And the more one starts to think about your suggestion the more it gets
a SOM flavor.
So I'd better stop.
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